Barrie Student Takes the Hoedown Showdown Crown
This page was exported from - The Auroran Export date: Tue Sep 28 5:04:42 2021 / +0000 GMT Barrie student takes the Hoedown Showdown crown By Brock Weir 16-year-old John Anderson was a tough act to follow. The Grade 11 student from Barrie was the first finalist to take the stage Friday night in the Hoedown Showdown competition, where 10 finalists from across Ontario vied for the crown of Canada's next country star. Nine more singers took on the challenge, but his renditions of Keith Urban's ?You Look Good in My Shirt? and Tim McGraw's ?Live Like Your Were Dying? were enough to seal the deal and Anderson returned to class on Monday with plenty to talk about. ?I am still just shocked that it happened,? said Anderson whose win secured him a grand prize valued of $20,000, including $2,500 cash, a Yamaha guitar and case, two fill days of recording at Metalworks Studios and the ?ultimate artist package? featuring professional management, coaching, styling and song-writing led by industry professionals. ?It has been a really big rush,? he continued, absorbing his win. ?It was a long journey to get here. I came into the competition last year and didn't even place. A big part of it was me overthinking things, but coming back I had tried to relax a little bit more and tried to give it my best.? A watershed moment occurred for Anderson in the Mentorship Week leading up to the finals, which kicked off the two-day Wild, Wild West Hoedown, hosted by Magna International, and was followed by headliners Chad Brownlee that evening and, the following night, by Tom Cochrane with Red Rider.
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